Re: nnmaildir

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Thomas Schwinge <schwinge-lists-gnus.org-ding@nic-nac-project.de> wrote:
> I'll try the CVS HEAD version tomorrorw.
> Is it sufficient to just copy nnmaildir.el?

Probably, but to be sure you can use one whole, consistent checkout.
The backslash removal might not be happening within nnmaildir anyway.

>> You might find this useful for now:
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55100
>
> So, do you have a working version of such a script?

No.

> If you're not going to implement the mark synchronisation functionality
> into nnmaildir, that will be the way to go.

I'm just not sure when I'll get to it.

> What's the purpose of 'save'?

In a *Summary* buffer, there are some gnus-summary-save-* commands
(type [O C-h] to see a list); if you run one of these commands to save
an article to a file or whatever, then the 'save mark will be set for
that article.

> If a message which is new to Gnus has 'F' set, it is displayed as
> 'ticked'. When the user changes the mark to 'dormant' this is recorded
> using the current scheme but the 'F' is preserved.

I would make F correspond exactly to 'tick, without involving 'dormant
at all.  Otherwise it's too complicated, and the stored information
may be ambiguous.

>> The experimental semantics wouldn't be useful; that would mean that
>> the message's info would look like ":1,..." which other MUAs wouldn't
>> understand.
>
> I had not tried that before - I thought that MUAs would leave the flags
> alone the didn't understand.

Yes, but they also wouldn't be able to interpret them.  ":1,F" does
not necessarily mean the same thing as ":2,F".  ":2,F" should mean the
same thing to all MUAs, but different MUAs may experiment with
different schemes, and might both use ":1,F" to mean different
things.  An MUA shouldn't change something it doesn't understand, but
with ":1," info, different MUAs may think they understand each other
when they really don't.

> Now I've got disabused (Does one use this word that way? - I'm always
> willing to improve my English.)

I would say "Now I have been disabused of that idea".


paul